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Hi,
We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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This is one of those things that has just changed. It will update when you
print (assuming you have "Update fields" checked on Tools | Options | Print), or you can update it manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... Hi, We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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That's just it, the option to update the field when printing is checked. It
just doesn't do it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is one of those things that has just changed. It will update when you print (assuming you have "Update fields" checked on Tools | Options | Print), or you can update it manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... Hi, We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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If you are actually creating a new document (*.doc file) based on a template
(*.dot file), or if you are even creating a new document based on an existing one (using Save As), then the CreateDate field should be updatable. If it is not, then perhaps the field is unlocked; if so, unlock it with Ctrl+Shift+F11. It might also be worth checking (if you haven't already) to make sure that the field is still really a field (Alt+F9 to display the field code) and not static text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... That's just it, the option to update the field when printing is checked. It just doesn't do it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is one of those things that has just changed. It will update when you print (assuming you have "Update fields" checked on Tools | Options | Print), or you can update it manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... Hi, We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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It was lock... now it works !
thank you so much ! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are actually creating a new document (*.doc file) based on a template (*.dot file), or if you are even creating a new document based on an existing one (using Save As), then the CreateDate field should be updatable. If it is not, then perhaps the field is unlocked; if so, unlock it with Ctrl+Shift+F11. It might also be worth checking (if you haven't already) to make sure that the field is still really a field (Alt+F9 to display the field code) and not static text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... That's just it, the option to update the field when printing is checked. It just doesn't do it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is one of those things that has just changed. It will update when you print (assuming you have "Update fields" checked on Tools | Options | Print), or you can update it manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... Hi, We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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I'm glad you figured that out even though I wrote "unlocked" when I meant
"locked"! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... It was lock... now it works ! thank you so much ! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you are actually creating a new document (*.doc file) based on a template (*.dot file), or if you are even creating a new document based on an existing one (using Save As), then the CreateDate field should be updatable. If it is not, then perhaps the field is unlocked; if so, unlock it with Ctrl+Shift+F11. It might also be worth checking (if you haven't already) to make sure that the field is still really a field (Alt+F9 to display the field code) and not static text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... That's just it, the option to update the field when printing is checked. It just doesn't do it. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This is one of those things that has just changed. It will update when you print (assuming you have "Update fields" checked on Tools | Options | Print), or you can update it manually. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Anne" wrote in message ... Hi, We recently migrated from Office 2002 to Office 2003. A template that worked perfectly in 2002 has a glitch in 2003. When I create a new document from a template, the field Createdate won't update, even if a I preview the document. The option to update the field is activated. What am I missing ? Windows XP - Office 2003 (sp3) |
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